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FAITH HOPE LOVE 
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FAITH 

If Faith is the communication of the Divine 
Spirit by which Christ as the revealed God 
dwells in our heart. It is the awakening of 
the Spirit of Adoption whereby we cry, "Abba 
"(~") Father."— T. H. Green. CJ 

1 Faith is a higher faculty than reason. — Bailey. 

If "Patience!" . . . "have faith and thy prayer will 
be answered!" — Longfellow. 

If The only faith that wears well and holds its color 
in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction 
and set with the sharp mordant of experience. 

— Lowell. 

f And we shall be made truly wise if we be made con- 
tent, too, not only with what we can understand, but 
content with what we do not understand — the habit 
of mind which theologians call — and rightly — faith 
in God. — Charles Kingsley. 

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Mirror of constant faith, revered and mourn'd! 

— Homer. 

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Faith is the subtle chain 
Which binds us to the infinite; the voice 
Of a deep life within, that will remain 
Until we crowd it thence. 

— E. O. Smith. 

welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, 
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings! 

— Milton. 

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1 It is always right that a man should render a reason 
for the faith that is within him. — Sidney Smith. 

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Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers; 
Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. 

— Tennyson. 

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f Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the 
evidence of things not seen. — Hebrews 11:4. 

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1 Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither 
be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee 
whithersoever thou goest. — Josh, i : 9. 

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t What ardently we wish, we soon believe. — Young. 

f Nothing in the whole world is worth the loss of thy 
faith. — Anon. 

t Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be faint- 
hearted. — Isa. 7:4. 

t I don't want to possess a faith, I want a faith that 
will possess me. — Charles Kingsley. 

11 Seek not what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, 
neither be ye of doubtful mind. — Luke 12: 29. 

Trials must and will befall; 

But with humble faith to see 
Love inscribed upon them all, 

This is happiness to me. 

— Wm. Cowper. 

f All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the 
heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what 
they have asked and desired, although not in the hour 
or in the measure, or the very thing which they ask; 
yet they will obtain something greater and more glori- 
ous than they had dared to ask. — Martin Luther. 

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1[ Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living 
and your belief will help create the fact. 

— William James. 

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Take what is: trust what may be: 
That's life's true lesson. 

— Browning. 

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Thou know'st not what is good for thee, 

But God doth know, — 
Let Him thy strong reliance be, 

And rest thee so. 

— C. G. Gellert. 

Why shouldst thou fill to-day with sorrow 
About to-morrow, 

My heart? 
One watches all with care most true, 
Doubt not that He will give thee too 

Thy part. 

— Paul Flemming. 

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O love that passeth knowledge, thee I need; 
Pour in the heavenly sunshine; fill my heart; 
Scatter the clouds, the doubting, and the dread, — 
The joy to me unspeakable to me impart. 

— H. Bonar. 

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Lord, Thou knowest what is best for us. 

— Thomas a Kempis. 

t Let us never doubt. Everything which ought to 
happen will happen. — Harriet Beecher Stowe. 

U Out of the lowest depth there is a path to the loftiest 
height. — Carlyle. 

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1 I have had many things in my hands and lost them 
all, but whatever I have been able to place in God's 
hands I still possess. — Martin Luther. 

1 And this is the confidence that we have in Him, 
that, if we ask anything according to His will, He 
heareth us: and if we know that He hear us, whatsoever 
we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we 
desired of him. — I John 5: 14-15. 

The saddest thing that can befall a soul 

Is when it loses faith in God and woman. 

Lost I those gems, 

Though the world's throne stood empty in my path, 

1 would go wandering back into my childhood, 
Searching for them with tears. 

— Alexander Smith. 

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f Bereavements and wishes long withheld descend 
sometimes as chastening griefs upon our nature; but 
there is no solace to the bitterness of broken faith. 

— Anon. 

My reason yields her hand to faith, 

And follows meekly where the angel leads. 

— Holland. 

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T Christian faith is a grand cathedral with divinely 
pictured windows. Standing without, you see no 
glory nor can possibly imagine any; standing within, 
every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable 
splendors. — Hawthorne. 

T Finish every day and be done with it . . . you have 
done what you could; some blunders and absurdities 
crept in; forget them as soon as you can. To-morrow 
is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely and 
with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your 
old nonsense. — Emerson. 

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Nay, all by Thee is ordered, chosen, planned; 
Each drop that fills my daily cup Thy hand 
Prescribes, for ills none else can understand: 
All, all is known to Thee. 

— A. L. Newton. 

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If the hand that I love lay me low, 
There cannot be pain in the blow. 

— Lord Byron. 

1 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal 
life. — Timothy 6: 12. 

1 The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are 
the everlasting arms. — Deut. 33 : 27. 

t That state is best, which exerciseth the highest 
faith in, and fullest resignation to God. — Wm. Law. 

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Late on me weeping did this whisper fall: 
"Child there is no need to weep at all; 
Why go about in doubt and in despair, 
Why bear to-day to-morrow's load of care?" 

— Anon. 

But above all the victory is most sure 

For him, who, seeking faith by virtue, strives 

To yield entire obedience to the Law 

Of Conscience; Conscience reverenced and obeyed, 

As God's most intimate presence in the soul, 

And His most perfect image in the world. 

— Wordsworth. 

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1 Be of good faith, my Friends, . . . and your life will 
spring and grow and refresh you. — I. Penington. 



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f Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow 
of death, I will fear no evil: for Thou art with me. 

— Ps. 23 : 4. 

1[ Remember the test of faith is faithfulness. Have 
we in us the stuff that will not weary or falter, that 
will make us stand a sleepless sentinel at the post till 
relief comes? — Hugh Black. 

f When, soul-sickened by delusion and deception, you 
have shivered beneath the icy touch of Doubt, have 
you never felt a sudden glow of love and faith arise 
within your heart? It may perhaps be a kiss of the 
mother you wept as lost, while she smiled at your 
error. — Mazzini. 

I cannot feel 
That all is well, when darkening clouds conceal 
The shining sun; 
But then I know 
He lives and loves; and say, since it is so, 
Thy will be done. 

— S. G. Browning. 

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H Never fear and never cry. — Benjamin Jowett. 

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1 Self-trust is the first secret of success. — Emerson. 

U Let us worship without seeing; let us be silent; let 
us abide in faith. — Anon. 

God . . . meant 
I should ever be, as I am, content, 
And glad in His sight, therefore glad 
I will be. 

— Browning. 

t When the clouds of sorrow gather over us we see 
nothing beyond them, nor can imagine how they can 
be dispelled; yet a new day succeeds to the night, and 
sorrow is never long without a dawn of ease. 

— Samuel Johnson. 

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If It is madness to fear a thing that is certain, for 
where there is no doubt there is no place for fear. 

— Seneca. 

f And this is the victory that overcometh the world, 
even our faith. — I John 5 : 4. 

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1 There was never a right endeavor but it succeeded. 

— Emerson. 

Some time when all life's lessons have been learned, 
And sun and stars for evermore have set, 
The things which our weak judgment here have spurned— 
The things o'er which we grieved with lashes wet — 
Will flash before us out of death's dark night, 
And we shall see how all God's plans were right, 
And how what seemed reproof was love most true. 

And we shall see that while we frown and sigh, 
God's plans go on as best for you and me; 
How when we called He heeded not our cry, 
Because His wisdom to the end could see; 
And e'en as prudent parents disallow 
Too much of sweet to craving babyhood, 
So God perhaps is keeping from us now 
Life's sweetest things, because it seemeth good. 

And if some time, commingled with life's wine, 
We find the wormwood, and rebel and shrink, 
Be sure a wiser hand than yours or mine 
Pours out this portion for our lips to drink; 
And if some friend we love is lying low, 
Where human kisses cannot reach his face, 
Oh! do not blame the loving Father so, 
But bear your sorrow with obedient grace. 
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And you shall shortly know that lengthened breath 
Is not the sweetest gift God sends his friend, 
And that some time the sable pall of death 
Conceals the fairest boon His love can send. 
If we could push ajar the gates of life, 
And stand within and all God's workings see, 
We could interpret all this doubt and strife, 
And for each mystery could find a key. 

But not to-day. Then be content, poor heart! 
God's plans, like lilies pure and white, unfold; 
We must not tear the close-shut leaves apart; 
Time will reveal the calyxes of gold. 
And if, through patient toil, we reach the land 
Where tired feet, with sandals loose, may rest, 
When we shall clearly know and understand, 
I think that we shall say that "God knew best." 

— May Riley Smith. 

1 I the Lord will hold thy right hand, saying unto 
thee, Fear not. — Isa. 41 : 13. 

1 He that hath lost his faith, — what staff has he left ! 

— Bacon. 

f Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. 

— Matt. 7: 34. 
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U Roll thy cares, and thyself with them, as one burden, 
all on thy God. — R. Leighton. 

Lift up thy brow . . . 
And with a great heart heave away this storm. 

— Shakespeare. 

1[ Every to-morrow has two handles. We can take 
hold of it by the handle of anxiety or the handle of 
faith. — Anon. 

H Do not look forward to what may happen to-morrow; 
the same everlasting Father who cares for you to-day, 
will care for you to-morrow, and every day. Either 
He will shield you from suffering, or He will give you 
unfailing strength to bear it. Be at peace then, and 
put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginations. 

— St. Francis de Sales. 

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I ask not, "Take away this weight of care"; 
No, for that love I pray that all can bear, 
And for the faith that whatso'er befall 
Must needs be good, and for my profit prove, 
Since from my Father's heart most rich in love, 
And from His bounteous hands it cometh all. 

— C. J. P. Spitta. 

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H Act upon faith in little things. — E. B. Pusey. 
If Faith in God will support you in duty. — Anon. 

t We know that all things work together for good to 
them that love God. — Rom. 7: 28. 

If Go forth to meet the solemnities and to conquer 
the trials of existence, believing in a Shepherd of 
your souls. — Stopford A. Brooke. 

O love that passeth knowledge, thee I need; 
Pour in the heavenly sunshine; fill my heart; 
Scatter the cloud, the doubting and the dread, 
The joy unspeakable to me impart. 

— H. Bonar. 

I am glad to think 
I am not bound to make the world go right; 
But only to discover and to do, 
With cheerful heart, the work that God appoints. 

I will trust in Him, 
That He can hold His own; and I will take 
His will, above the work He sendeth me, 
To be my chiefest good. 

— J. Ingelow. 

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1 A man of courage is also full of faith. — Cicero. 

f As soon as we are with God in faith and in love, 
we are in prayer. — Fenelon. 

If I believe that to-day is better than yesterday, and 
that to-morrow will be better than to-day. 

— George F. Hoar. 

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If I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for 
Thou, Lord, only makest me to dwell in safety. 

— Ps. 4:8. 

1 God has promised that it shall be to us according 
to our faith, and unless He could fail to keep His word, 
the things we believe must be ours. — H. W. Smith. 

We tell Thee of our care, 
Of the sore burden pressing day by day, 
And in the light and pity of Thy face, 
The burden melts away. 

We breathe our secret wish, 

The importunate longing which no man can see; 

We ask it humbly or, more restful still, 

We leave it all with Thee. — Susan Coolidge. 

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1 Faith is taking God at His word. — Evans. 

f To revive faith is more difficult than to create it. 

— Anon. 

Up heart, and out of the mist! 

Soar with the wings of Faith 

To the realm the sun hath kissed. 

That is thy native heath! 

Up! now, and possess thy own! 

— Helen Van Anderson. 

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H And because the clouds cover the heavens and there 
is no harbor in sight do not deny there is a harbor. 

— Anon. 

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So he died for his faith. That is fine — 

More than most of us do. 
But still can you add to that line 

That he lived for it too? 

— Ernest Crosby. 

H We are never without a pilot. When we know not 
how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. 
The current knows the way, though we do not. The 
ship of heaven guides itself. — Emerson. 

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1 They can conquer who believe they can. 

— Mazzini. 

The sum of all is — Yes ! my doubt is great, 
My faith's still greater. 

— Browning. 

t He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a 
friend loses more; but he who loses his faith loses all. 

— Anon. 

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f Oh ! the peace which a true Christian might possess 
if he would take God at His word, and trust Him to 
make good His promises. — Anon. 

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I know not where His islands lift 
Their fronded palms in air: 
I only know I cannot drift 
Beyond His love and care. 

— Whittier. 

f If you trust God yourself you can surmount every 
obstacle. Do not yield to restless anxiety. One must 
not always be asking what may happen to one in life, 
but one must advance fearlessly and bravely. 

— Bismarck. 

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1 The whole course of things goes to teach us Faith. 

— Anon. 

f He who keeps his faith, he only, cannot be dis- 
crowned. — Mazzini. 

Thro' silence and the trembling stars 
Comes Faith from tracts no feet have trod. 

— Tennyson. 

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Trust through the dark 
Brings triumph in the dawn. 

— T. L. Cuyler. 

K To those who "wait upon the Lord" there is always 
given strength to meet the trouble of the day, and 
there ought to be no anxiety as to the trials of the 
morrow. — Anon. 

Grave on thy heart each past "red-lettered day"! 
Forget not all the sunshine of the way 
By which the Lord hath led thee; answered prayers, 
And joys unasked, strange blessings, lifted cares, 
Grand promise-echoes! Thus thy life shall be 
One record of His love and faithfulness to thee. 

— F. R. Havergal. 

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The Bread of Life is Love; 
The Salt of Life is Work; 
The Sweetness of Life, Poesy; 
The Water of Life, Faith. 

— Mrs. Jameson. 

1 O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? 

— Matt. 14:31. 

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If Faith is an attitude — a mirror set at the right 
angle. — Drummond. 

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Self is earthly, — Faith alone 
Makes an unseen world our own; 
Faith relinquished, how we roam, 
Feel our way, and leave our home. 

— Cowper. 

If Human reason is feeble and may be deceived, but 
true faith cannot be deceived. — A Kempis. 

If You cannot believe too much in God's mercy. 

— Anon. 

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If Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief. 

— Mark 9:24. 

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He guides our feet, He guards our way, 
His morning smiles bless all the day; 
He spreads the evening veil, and keeps 
The silent hours while Israel sleeps. 

— I. Watts. 

K Faith does nothing alone — nothing of itself, but 
everything under God, by God, through God. 

— Stoughton. 

What Thou shalt to-day provide, 
Let me as a child receive; 
What to-morrow may betide, 
Calmly to Thy wisdom leave. 
Tis enough that Thou wilt care; 
Why should I the burden bear? 

— J. Newton. 

1 Lo I am with you alway, even unto the end of the 
world. — Matt. 28: 20. 

Our days are numbered: let us spare 
Our anxious hearts a needless care: 
T is Thine to number out our days; 
T is ours to give them to Thy praise. 

— Madam Guyon. 

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If Faith is the eye that sees Him, the hand that clings 
to Him, the receiving power that appropriates Him. 

— WOODBRIDGE. 

N'er think the victory won, 
Nor lay thine armor down: 

The work of faith will not be done, 
Till thou obtain the crown. 

— George Heath. 

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So faith is strong 

Only when we are strong, shrinks when we shrink. 

It comes when music stirs us, and the chords, 

Moving on some grand climax, shake our souls 

With influx new that makes new energies. 

It comes in swelling of the heart and tears 

That rise at noble and grand deeds. 

It comes in moments of heroic love, 

Unjealous joy in joy not made for us; 

In conscious triumph of the good within, 

Making us worship goodness that rebukes. 

Even our failures are a prophecy, 

Even our yearnings and our bitter tears 

After that fair and true we cannot grasp. 

Presentiment of better things on earth 

Sweeps in with every force that stirs our souls 

To admiration, self-renouncing love. 

— George Eliot. 
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f All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for 
all that I have not seen. — Emerson. 

Tf The steps of faith fall on the seeming void, but find 
the rock beneath. — Whittier. 

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1 Epochs of faith are epochs of fruitfulness; but epochs 
of unbelief, however glittering, are barren of all per- 
manent good. — Goethe. 

f Forget yesterday, think not of to-morrow, but walk 
steadily and bravely as becomes faithful men and 
women in the arena of to-day. — J. G. Pennington. 

If Faith is required at thy hands, and a sincere life, 
not height of understanding, nor deep understanding, 
nor deep inquiry into the mysteries of God. 

— A Kempis. 

Heaven overarches you and me 

And all earth's gardens and her graves. 

Look up with me, until we see 

The day break and the shadows flee. 

What though to-night wrecks you and me 

If so to-morrow saves? 

— Christina G. Rossetti. 

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f Act upon faith in little things; commit thy daily 
cares and anxieties to God. — E. B. Pusey. 

f The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are 
the everlasting arms. — Deut. 33 : 27. 

f Faith makes the discords of the present the har- 
monies of the future. — Collyer. 

f All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, 
before one single word — FAITH. — Napoleon. 

f Let us move on and step out boldly, though it be 
in the night and we can scarcely see the way. 

— Charles B. Newcomb. 

f This hour is mine with its present duties; the next 
is God's, and when it comes, His presence will come 
with it. — W. R. Huntington. 

No coward soul is mine, 

No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere; 

I see heaven's glories shine, 

And faith shines equal, arming me from fear. 

— Emily Bronte. 
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f Man is not made to question, but adore. — Young. 

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f We do not need more light, but more faith. — Anon. 

T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower 

Of faith, and round the sufferer's temple bind 

Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, 
And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind. 

— Wordsworth. 

f Call upon God in true faith, and you will not fail 
to get the desire of your heart. — Anon. 

His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might 
Be wrong; his life, I 'm sure, was in the right. 

— Abraham Cowley. 

If Faith is indeed that which most raises us from a 
state of brute selfishness and brute ignorance; leading 
us even unto God our Father, and Saviour, and Sanc- 
tifier. — Thomas Arnold. 

f I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, 
I have kept the faith. — 2 Timothy 4: 7. 

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\) f Never despair! Lost hope is a fatal disease. \) 

— Hooper. ^ 

K The habit of looking on the best side of everything 
is worth more than a thousand pounds a year. 

— Samuel Johnson. 

There is always work. 

And tools to work withal, for those who will. 

— Lowell. 

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^ He is the best physician who is the most ingenious 
inspirer of hope. — Coleridge. 

t That is what I shall think of: that God will give 
each of us another chance, and that each one of us 
will take it and do better — I and you and every one. 

— Beatrice Harraden. 

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f Hope without action is a barren undoer. — Feltham. 

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f Hope against hope and ask till you receive. 

— Montgomery. 

1 The flights of the human mind are not from enjoy- 
ment, but from hope to hope. — Johnson. 

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Work without hope draws mortar in a sieve, 
And hope without an object cannot live. 

— Coleridge. 

1 Hope is always liberal, and they that trust her 
promises make little scruples of revelling to-day on the 
profits of to-morrow. — Johnson. 

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The weariest watch must sometime end, 
The dreariest winter must one day close, 
And under the cover that wraps the earth 
Sleeps the Summer rose. 

Did the Spring e'er fail of its mission sweet 
After the rush of the Northern snows? 
Then why should we care, since under the snow 
Sleeps the Summer rose. 

— C. H. Towne. 

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f Hope is love's happiness, but not its life. 

— L. E. Landon. 

f Hope shortens all journeys by sweetening them. 

— Sterne. 

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f The hours we pass with happy prospects in view 
are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition. 

— Goldsmith. 

Who in life's battles firm doth stand 
Shall bear Hope's tender blossoms 
Into the Silent Land. 

— J. G. Van Salis. 

Know then, whatever cheerful and serene 
Supports the mind, supports the body too: 
Hence, the most vital movement mortals feel 
Is hope, the balm and life-blood of the soul. 

— John Armstrong. 

1" Hope is the last thing that dies in man, and though 
it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use 
to us, that while we are travelling through life it con- 
ducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our 
journey's end. — Rochefoucauld. 

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If In all things it is better to hope than to despair. 

— Goethe. 

If You cannot put a great hope into a small soul. 

— J. L. Jones. 

t Turn ye to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope. 

— ZECH. 9: 12. 

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If Perseverance is the perfection of the duty of hope, 
and its last act. — Jeremy Taylor. 

If Auspicious hope, in thy sweet garden grow wreaths 
for each toil, a charm for every woe. — Campbell. 

If Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all para- 
sites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well 
as the palace of his superior. — Shenstone. 

Discouraged in the work of life, 

Disheartened by its load, 

Shamed by its failures or its fears, 

I sink beside the road ; — 

But let me only think of Thee, 

And then new heart springs up in me. 

— S. Longfellow. 
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f Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why 
art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God. 

— Ps. 62:5. 

To heaven I lift my waiting eyes; 

There all my hopes are laid. 
The Lord that built the earth and skies 

Is my perpetual aid. 

— I. Watts. 

f Lift up thy cares with thy heart to God if thou 
wouldst hope in Him. — E. B. Pusey. 

t Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward 
it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. 

— S. Smiles. 

1 Eternity is the divine treasure house, and hope is 
the window, by means of which mortals are permitted 
to see, as through a glass darkly, the things which 
God is preparing. — Mountford. 

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If I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an 
estate in reversion, if one can keep from the tempta- 
tion of turning it into certainty, which may spoil all. 

— George Eliot. 

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Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, 
Is hope; the last of all our evils, fear. 

— John Armstrong. 

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True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; 
Kings it makes Gods, and meaner creatures kings. 

— Shakespeare. 

If Hope is the only good that is common to all men; 
those who have nothing else possess hope still. 

— Tennyson. 

If For present grief there is always a remedy; however 
much thou sufferest, hope; hope is the greatest happi- 
ness of man. — Schefer. 

But still there clung 
One hope like a keen sword on starting threads 
uphung. 

— Byron. 

Each moment wafts us higher, 
By every gush of pure desire, 
And high-breathed hopes 
of joys above. 

— Keble. 

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11 Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavour. 

— Johnson. 

t Through good times, through bad times, through 
all time, HOPE. — Allen. 

1 Hope is a ladder with its foot on earth, whose top 
is set among the stars. — Anon. 

If When a hope is very old and very feeble, and has 
at last abandoned effort and lain down to die, — even 
then the merest glimmer of fulfilment may revive 
it; its youth in a moment shall be renewed like the 
eagle's. — M. Byron. 

Wake, hope and joy, 

Sleep, earthly fear, 
Trust, doubting heart, — 

Thy God is near. 

— Anon. 

If O toiling hands of mortals ! O unwearied feet, trav- 
elling ye know not whither! . . . Little do ye know 
your own blessedness: for to travel hopefully is a better 
thing than to arrive, and the true success is labour. 

— R. L. Stevenson. 

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f We are saved by hope. — Rom. 7: 24. 

<v> 

One hope remains, and that, as others fade, 

Grows higher still, 
As shadows lengthen o'er this earthly glade, 

And up the hill 
We higher mount toward the final Home 
To which in God's good time we hope to come. 

— John Sharp. 

^f Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and 
whose hope the Lord is. — Jer. 17:7. 

I Hold up your head ! You were not made for failure, 
you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful 
confidence in that respect sooner or later, and sooner 
or later depends upon yourself. — George Eliot. 

<? 

I I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in His 
Word do I hope. — Ps. 80: 5. 

t They that live in hope, live in joy. — Anon. 

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fear. 

— Walter Scott. 

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In all my wanderings round this world of care, 
In all my griefs — and God has given my share — 
I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, 
Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down. 

— Goldsmith. 

f Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that, and 
manage it against despairing thoughts. 

— Shakespeare. 

f The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the 
sun. — The brightness of our life is gone, shadows of 
the evening fall around us, and the world seems but 
a broader shadow. — Longfellow. 

K Hope is the best possession, — none are completely 
wretched but those who are without hope, and few 
are reduced as low as that. — Hazlitt. 

I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me, 
If my bark sinks, 't is to another sea. 

— Channing. 

s? 

1 The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are 
more pleasing than those crowded with fruition. 

— Goldsmith. 

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f When the heart is light with hope, all pleases, nothing 
comes amiss. — Rogers. 

To hope till hope creates 
From its own wreck the thing it contemplates. 

— Shelley. 

t A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to 
fear and sorrow real poverty. — Hume. 

1 He who would undermine the foundations of our 
hope for eternity, seeks to beat down the column 
which supports the feebleness of humanity. 

— Anon. 

<y 

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, 

Adorns and cheers our way; 
And still, as darker grows the night, 

Emits a brighter ray. 

— Goldsmith. 

If Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. 

— Pope. 

f Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage. 

— Johnson. 

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f There is no time with God. ... He does not promise 
that any given date or moment shall see the fulfilling 
of our hopes. The long years when we receive no visible 
answer are to Him the same short day as when our 
hope began. It is laid up for us in Heaven, like Aaron's 
rod within the Ark: and there, in like manner, it shall 
bud, and blossom, and bring forth fruit simultaneously, 
when He shall choose. — M. Byron. 

There is no day so dark 
But through the murk some ray of Hope may steal, 
Some blessed touch from Heaven, that we may feel, 

If we but choose to mark. 

— C. Thaxter. 

f Shutting out our fears with all the strength of Hope. 

— Browning. 

We weep because the night is long, — 
We laugh — for day shall rise: 

We sing a slow contented song, 
And knock at paradise. 

— C. Rossetti. 

<? 

f If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of 
all men most miserable. — I Cor. 15: 19. 

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f The habit of viewing things cheerfully, and of think- 
ing about life hopefully, may be made to grow up in 
us like any other habit. — S. Smiles. 

s? 

If Life is not a dreary waste. On the contrary, it is 
full of joy and gladness: and to the strong radiant 
soul, who has Faith and Hope, it is full of goodness. 

— Anon. 

K I will hope for the best, and provide for the worst. 

— Seneca. 

H A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what 's 
heaven for? — Browning. 

<? 

The hopes that lost in some far distance seem, 
May be the truer life, and this the dream. 

— A. A. Procter. 

f I will hope continually, and will yet praise Thee 
more and more. — Ps. 71:14. 

Yea though thou lie upon the dust, 
When they who helped thee flee in fear, 
Die full of hope and manly trust. 

— Bryant. 

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f For the morrow we are told to trust, and we may 
ever hope. — Anon. 

1 Hope evermore and believe, O man. 

— Arthur H. Clough. 

1 Progress is our being's motto and hope. Onward, 
then, pilgrims, to eternity. — Dr. Orville Dewey. 

Keep a brave spirit and never despair; 

Hope brings you messages through the keen air — 

God is victorious — God everywhere. 

— Anon. 

The archangel Hope 

Looks to the azure cope, 
Waits through dark ages for the morn. 
Defeated day by day, but unto victory born. 

— Emerson. 

f The men whom I have seen succeed best in life have 
always been cheerful and hopeful men, who went 
about their business with a smile on their faces, and 
took their changes and chances of this mortal life 
like men, facing rough and smooth alike as it came. 

— Charles Kingsley. 

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f Let a man hope for any great and noble thing, and 
the strength and greatness of that hope will pass 
into his soul. — John White Chadwick. 

<? 

f The Lord abideth back of me to guide my fighting 
arm. — Kipling. 

s? 

My own hope is, a sun will pierce 
The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; 
That, after Last, returns the First, 
Though a wide compass round be fetched; 
That what began best, can't end worst, 
Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst. 
— Robert Browning. 

v 

If God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's 
excuse. — Plutarch. 

s? 

f There is no man so miserable as he who is without 
hope. — Anon. 

H Fortune can take away riches, but not hope. 

— Seneca. 

<? 

Hope thou in God, and fear not. 

— Anon. 

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1 Hope is like the cork to the net, which keeps the 
soul from sinking in despair. — Bishop Watson. 

<? 

Every day is a fresh beginning, 
Every morn is the world made new. 
You who are weary of sorrow and sinning, 
Here is a beautiful hope for you; 
A hope for me and a hope for you. 

— Susan Coolidge. 

f Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to 
the end of life along an agreeable road. 

— La Rochefoucauld. 

Be strong to hope, O heart ! 

Though day is bright 

The stars can only shine 

In the dark night. 

Be strong, O heart of mine, 

Look toward the light! 

— Adelaide A. Procter. 
<? 
t Had mankind nothing to expect beyond the grave, 
their best faculties would be a torment to them; and 
the more considerate and virtuous they were, the 
greater concern and grief they would feel from the 
shortness of their prospects. — Balguy. 

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What can we do to whom the unbeholden 
Hangs in a night with which we cannot cope? 

What but look sunward and with faces golden 
Speak to each other softly of a hope. 

— F. W. H. Myers. 

If Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, 
and doth much to the prolongation of life, if it is 
not too often frustrated; but entertaineth the fancy 
with an expectation of good. — Bacon. 

f We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope 
than to despair. — Goethe. 

1f He who loses hope may then part with everything. 

— CONGREVE. 

Cease every joy to glimmer in my mind, 
But leave, — Oh ! leave the light of Hope behind ! 
What though my winged hours of bliss have been, 
Like Angel-visits, few and far between. 

— Campbell. 

f Let no one despair, even though in the darkest 
night the last star of Hope may disappear. 

— Schiller. 

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1 Hope and fasting are said to be the two wings of 
prayer. — Jeremy Taylor. 

<v> 
When the dark shadows fall, 
Like some great, gloomy pall, 

On all around, 
And look which way we may, 
Night has usurped the day, 

And cares abound; 
Then heavenward we will turn, 
Till thoughts within us burn, 

That God is right; 
That whatsoever comes, 
Is overruled alone 

By His great might; 
That justice shall prevail, 
And righteousness exhale 

Perfume complete; 
That Truth at last shall wield 
A scepter and a shield 

With joy replete; 
And Honor firm shall stand, 
The nation's great right hand, 

Forevermore ; 
While Faith and Hope shall hold 
Our country in the fold, 

As heretofore. 

— Martha J. Hadley. 

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f Hope, of all passions, most befriends us here; joy 
has her tears, and transport has her death; hope, like 
a cordial, innocent though strong, man's heart at once 
inspirits and serenes, nor makes him pay his wisdom 
for his joy. — Young. 

f Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope; he has 
no other possession but hope; this world of his is em- 
phatically the place of hope. — Carlyle. 

Though to-day may not fulfil 
All thy hopes, have patience still; 
For perchance to-morrow's sun 
Sees thy happier days begun. 

— P. Gerhardt. 

•f Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen thy 
heart, all ye that hope in the Lord. — Ps. 31 : 24. 

s? 

f Though we may not be able to attain, that is no 
reason why we should not hope. 

— Sir John Lubbock. 

If Hope is a vigorous principle; it sets the head and 
heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost. 

— Collier. 

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f In adversity only the virtuous can entertain hope. 

— Bacon. 
<? 

f If the mere delay of hope deferred makes the heart 
sick, what will the death of hope — its final and total 
disappointment, despair — do for it? — W. Nevins. 

Hopes, what are they? — Beads of the morning 

Strung on slender blades of grass; 

Or a spider's web adorning 

In a straight and treacherous pass. 

— Wordsworth. 

s? 

1 Hope is the best part of our riches. — What sufficeth 
it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, 
if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls? 

— Bovee. 

s? 

But hope will make thee young, for 

Hope and Youth 
Are children of one mother, even Love. 

— Shelley. 

f The good man's hope is laid far, far beyond the 
sway of tempests, or the furious sweep of mortal 
desolation. — H. K. White. 

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LOVE 

f Kindness given and received aright and 
knitting two hearts into one is a thing of 
heaven as rare in this world as a perfect love; 
both are the overflow of only very rare and 
C~) beautiful souls. — Balzac. C~~) 

If Where love is God is. He that dwelleth in love dwel- 
leth in God. God is love. Therefore LOVE. Without 
distinction, without calculation, without procrastina- 
tion, love. Lavish it upon the poor, where it is very 
easy; especially upon the rich, who often need it most. 
. . . Give pleasure, lose no chance of giving pleasure. 
For that is the ceaseless and anonymous triumph of 
a truly loving spirit. — Henry Drummond. 

S? 
1 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good 
to all men. — Gal. 7: 10. 

. . . Have good will 
To all that lives, letting unkindness die 
And greed and wrath; so that your lives be made 
Like soft airs passing by. 

— E. Arnold. 

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1 It is not enough to love others; we must let them 
know that we love them. — J. R. Miller. 

<? 

f He best worships God who best serves men. 

— Anon. 

s? 

Happiness is a great love 
And much serving. 

— Olive Schreiner. 

If To make some nook of God's creation a little fruit- 
fuller ... to make some human heart a little wiser, 
manfuller, happier ... it is the work for a God. 

— Carlyle. 

No gain 
That I experience must remain 
Unshared. 

— Browning. 

If The wealth of a man is in the number of things he 
loves and blesses. — Carlyle. 

f The charities that soothe and heal, and bless, lie 
scattered at the feet of men like flowers. 

— Wordsworth. 

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t Charity is a virtue of the heart and not of the hands. 

— Addison. 

Give, give freely, 

Do not count the cost. 

— Anon. 

I hold that Christian grace abounds 
Where charity is seen: that when 
We mount to Heaven, 't is on the rounds 
Of love to men. 

— Whittier. 

f One thing is needful — only one — and that one 
thing is LOVE. — Anon. 

f There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the 
fingers. — Seneca. 

s? 

He best worships God 
Who best serves men. 

— Anon. 

T Let him who neglects to raise the fallen, fear lest 
when he falls, no one will stretch out his hand to lift 
him up. — Saadi. 

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1 It is not enough to love others, we must love to 
serve them. — Anon. 

<? 

True charity, a plant divinely nursed. 

— Cowper. 

If Such help as we can give each other in this world 
is a debt we owe each other. — Ruskin. 

Which renders 
Good for bad, blessings for curses. 

— Shakespeare. 

<? 

In silence, 
Steals on soft-handed Charity, 
Tempering her gifts, that seem so free, 

By time and place, 
Till not a woe the bleak world see, 

But finds her grace. 

— Keble. 

If When the hour of trouble comes to the mind or the 
body, and when the hour of death comes, that comes 
to high and low, then it is na what we hae dune for 
oursells, but what we hae dune for others, that we 
think on maist pleasantly. — Walter Scott. 

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f What do we live for if not to make the world less 
difficult for each other? — George Eliot. 

f He is truly great who hath a great charity. 

— Thomas a Kempis. 

f True Christianity is the brotherhood of man. 

— Tolstoi. 

s? 

1 The sweetest music is not in oratorios, but in the 
human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones 
of tenderness, truth, and courage. — Emerson. 

T is not the love we get, but that we give, 
Which leaves glad memories through the coming years. 

— Walter Smith. 

<? 

1 The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us 
of the conscious happiness of having acted with 
humanity ourselves. — Goldsmith. 

f In giving of thine alms, inquire not so much into the 
person, as his necessity. — God looks not so much 
on the merits of him that requires, as to the manner 
of him that relieves, — if the man deserves not, thou 
hast given to humanity. — Quarles. 

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f If God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. 

— I John 4: 2. 

Desire joy and thank God for it. 
Renounce it, if need be, for others' sake. 
That 's joy beyond joy. 

— Browning. 

•J A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. 

— Carlyle. 

f A little thought and a little kindness are often worth 
more than a great deal of money. — Ruskin. 

t We are not here to dream, or even to build up in 
grace and beauty our individual life; we are respon- 
sible, each in our own little way, for trying to leave 
this sad world happier. — Bulwer Lytton. 

T is a little thing 
To give a cup of water; yet its draught 
Of cool refreshment, drained by fever's lips, 
May give a shock of pleasure to the frame 
More exquisite than when nectarean juice 
Renews the life of joy in happiest hours. 

— T. N. Talgourd. 

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% The chief mission of all words . . . that they should 
be of comfort. — Ruskin. 

r Loving kindness is greater than laws, and the chari- 
ties of life are more than all ceremonies. — Talmud. 

<? 

•; The most obvious lesson of the gospel is, that there 
is no happiness in having and getting, only in giving. 

— Henry Drummond. 

<? 

Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives, 
She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives: 
Lays the rough paths of peevish Nature even, 
And opens in each heart a little Heaven. 

— Prior. 
<? 
? Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, 
of this virtue. — Addison. 

<v> 
If I can stop one heart from breaking, 
I shall not live in vain. 

— Emily Dickinson. 

*; We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitable- 
ness than to interpret the afflictions which befall our 
neighbor as punishments and judgments. — Addison. 

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If Mutual brotherhood means mutual service. 

— Lyman Abbott. 

If Every noble life leaves the fibre of itself interwoven 
forever in the work of the world. — Trench. 

<? 

f To cure is the voice of the past ; to prevent, the 
divine whisper of to-day. — Kate Douglas Wiggin. 

<? 

f I shall pass through this world but once. Any good 
thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that 
I can show to any human being, let me do it now . . . 
for I shall not pass this way again. — Anon. 

S? 

If, in the paths of the world, 
Stones might have wounded thy feet, 
Toil or dejection have tried 
Thy spirit, of that we saw 
Nothing — to us thou wast still 
Cheerful, and helpful, and firm! 
Therefore to thee it was given 
Many to save with thyself; 
And, at the end of the day, 
O faithful shepherd! to come, 
Bringing thy sheep in thy hand. 

— Matthew Arnold. 

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f To be eager to give pity to men, and forgiveness 
to their wrong; to desire with thirst to bind up the 
broken heart of man, and to realize our desire in act 
— this is to thirst for God as Love. 

— Stopford Brooke. 

. . . Let each act 
Assail a fault or help a merit grow: 
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads 
Let love through good deeds show. 

— Edward Arnold. 

f Sympathy is the safeguard to the human soul against 
selfishness. — Carlyle. 

<? 

The sinner's own fault? So it was. 
If every own fault found us out, 
Dogged us and hedged us round about, 
What comfort should we take because 
Not half our due we thus wrung out? 

Clearly his own fault. Yet I think 
My fault in part, who did not pray 
But lagged and would not lead the way. 
I, haply, proved his missing link. 
God help us both to mind and pray. 

— ROSSETTI. 

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1 We hear much of love to God; Christ spoke much of 
love to man. — Drummond. 

<? 

f Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind! — Anon. 

f Therefore with all the strength God has given us, 
let us try to make the life of the world more complete. 

— Phillips Brooks. 

s? 

All my soul is full 
Of pity for the sickness of this world; 
Which I will heal, if healing may be found 
By uttermost renouncing and strong strife. 

— Edward Arnold. 

% I should count myself fortunate if my home were 
remembered for some inspiring quality of faith, charity, 
and aspiring intelligence. — Hamilton W. Mabie. 

Who shuts his hand hath lost his gold, 
Who opens it hath it twice told. 

— George Herbert. 

f The richer the gift, the richer the giver. No one was 
ever the worse for giving. — F. F. Montresor. 

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f Wealth in every form, material, intellectual, moral, 
has to be administered for the common good. God 
only can say of any possession "My own." 

— Bishop Westcott. 

<? 

1 Man seeks pleasure and self — great unforeseen results 
follow. Man seeks God and others — and there follows 
pleasure. — Arnold Toynbee. 

1 To have faith is to create; to have hope is to call 
down blessing; to have love is to work miracles. 

— Michael Fairless. 

<? 

O you that have the charge of love, 
Keep him in rosy bondage bound! 

— Thomas Moore. 

Teach me to feel another's woe, 

To hide the fault I see: 
That mercy I to others show, 

That mercy show to me. 

— Pope. 

s? 

If Give bread to the stranger in the name of the uni- 
versal brotherhood which binds together all men. 

— Quintilian. 

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1 Forgive thy self little and others much. 

— Leighton. 

1 To live is not to live for oneself alone; let us help 
one another. — Menander. 

s? 

t The race of mankind would perish did they cease to 
aid one another. We cannot exist without mutual 
help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask 
it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the 
power of granting can refuse it without guilt. 

— Walter Scott. 

s? 

Not for himself but for the world he lives. 

— Lucan. 

s? 

1 We must love men where they ill seem to us worthy 
of our love. — Shakespeare. 

<? 

If It is an inevitable law that a man cannot be happy 
if he does not live for something higher than his own 
happiness. — He cannot live in or for himself. 

— Bulwer. 

<? 

1" Doing good is the only certainly happy action of 
a man's life. — Sir Philip Sidney. 
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Count that day lost whose low descending sun 
Views from thy hand no worthy action done. 

— Anon. 

<? 

Amid life's quest there seems but worthy one, 
To do men good. 

— Bailey. 

On that best portion of a good man's life, 
His little, nameless, unremembered acts 
Of kindness and of love. 

— Wordsworth. 

% We must not only affirm the brotherhood of man ; 
we must live it. — Bishop Potter. 

I would help others out of a fellow feeling. 

— Burton. 

s? 

1 Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in 
doing good to their fellow creatures. — Cicero. 

If They who scatter with one hand, gather with two, 
not always in coin, but in kind. Nothing multiplies 
so much as kindness. — Wray. 
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If Heaven in sunshine will requite the kind. — Anon. 

s? 

Be useful where thou livest, that they may 
Both want and wish thy pleasing presence still. 

— G. Herbert. 

f For this is the message that ye heard from the be- 
ginning, that we should love one another. — i John 3:11. 

f He who wishes to secure the good of others has 
already secured his own. — Confucius. 

What asks our Father of His children save 
Justice and mercy and humility, 
A reasonable service of good deeds, 
Pure living, tenderness to human needs. 

— Whittier. 

f The luxury of doing good surpasses every other 
personal enjoyment. — Gray. 

If If thou neglectest thy love to thy neighbor, in vain 
thou professest thy love to God; for by thy love to 
God, the love to thy neighbor is begotten, and by the 
love to thy neighbor, thy love to God is nourished. 

— Quarles. 
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For his bounty there was no winter to it; 
An autumn it was that grew more by reaping. 

— Shakespeare. 

<? 

So others shall 
Take patience, labor, to their heart and hand, 
From thy hand, and thy heart, and thy brave cheer, 
And God's grace fructify through thee to all. 
The least flower with a brimming cup may stand, 
And share its dewdrop with another near. 

— E. B. Browning. 

1 Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 

— Matt. 19: 19. 

If Give, and God's reward to you will be the spirit 
of giving more. — F. W. Robertson. 

He hath a tear for pity, and a hand 
Open as day for melting charity. 

— Shakespeare. 

f Men are looking to us in faintness, weariness, and 
want, and a voice says to us, "Give ye them to eat." 
If it is but five loaves, we can offer them to Christ, 
and He will multiply them. — Phillips Brooks. 

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K Kindness is the golden chain by which society is 
bound together. — Goethe. 



. . . This is peace: 
To conquer love of self and lust of life, 
To tear deep-rooted passion from the breast, 
To still the inward strife: 

For love to clasp Eternal Beauty close; 
For glory to be Lord of self; for pleasure 
To live beyond the gods; for countless wealth 
To lay up lasting treasure. 

Of perfect service rendered, duties done 
In charity, soft speech, and stainless days: 
These riches shall not fade away in life, 
Nor any death dispraise. 

— Edward Arnold. 

<? 

1 The real work of charity is not to afford facilities 
to the poor to lower their standard, but to step in when 
calamity threatens, and prevent it from falling. 

— Mrs. Bernard Bosanquet. 

U Love cannot be content while any suffer. — Anon. 

f As long as we love we serve. — Stevenson. 
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May I reach 
That purest heaven, be to other souls 
The cup of strength in some great agony, 
Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, 
Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, 
And in diffusion ever more intense! 
So shall I join the choir invisible 
Whose music is the gladness of the world. 

— George Eliot. 

<? 

1 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God. 

— I John 4: 7. 

f . . . Have you ever noticed how much of Christ's 
life was spent in doing kind things. ... He spent a 
great portion of His time in simply making people 
happy, in doing good turns to people. 

— Henry Drummond. 

RESOLVE 

To keep my health! 

To do my work! 

To live! 

To see to it I grow and gain and give. 

— C. P. Stetson. 

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Love thyself last, look near, behold thy duty 
To those who walk beside thee down life's road; 
Make glad their days by little acts of beauty, 
And help them bear the burden of earth's load. 

Love thyself last. Look far and find the stranger, 
Who staggers 'neath his sin and his despair; 
Go lend a hand and lead him out of danger 
To heights where he may see the world is fair. 

Love thyself last. The vastnesses above thee 
Are filled with spirit forces strong and pure, 
And fervently these faithful friends shall love thee: 
Keep thou the watch o'er others and endure. 

Love thyself last; and oh, such joy shall thrill thee 
As never yet to selfish souls was given. 
What e'er thy lot, a perfect peace will fill thee, 
And earth shall seem the anteroom of Heaven. 

Love thyself last, and thou shalt grow in spirit 
To see, to hear, to know, and understand 
The message of the stars, lo, thou shalt hear it, 
And all God's joys shall be at thy command. 

Love thyself last. The world shall be made better 
By thee, if this brief motto forms thy creed: 
Go follow it in spirit and in letter, 
This is the true religion which men need. 

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 

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Ask God to give thee skill 

For comfort's art, 
That thou may'st consecrated be, 

And set apart 
Unto a life of sympathy! 
For heavy is the weight of ill 

For every heart, 
And comforters are needed much 

Of Christlike touch. 

— Anon. 

T Of him that hopes to be forgiven, it is indispensably 
necessary that he forgive. — Samuel Johnson. 

<? 

1 It is royal to do good and to be abused. 

— Marcus Aurelius. 

<? 

So many gods, so many creeds, 

So many ways that wind and wind, 

When just the art of being kind 
Is all this sad world needs. 

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 

1 To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind 
act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer. 

— Saadi. 

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1 Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shalt find 
it after many days. — Eccles. ii : i. 

s? 

If Blessed are the happiness-makers. Blessed are they 
who know how to shine on one's gloom with their 
cheer. 

— Henry Ward Beecher. 

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If Kindness in ourselves is the honey that sweetens 
the bitterness of unkindness in others. — Landor. 

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1 It is the lives, like the stars, which simply pour 
down on us the calm light of their bright and faith- 
ful being, up to which we look and out of which we 
gather the deepest calm and courage. 

— Phillips Brooks. 

Look thou with pity on a brother's fall, 
But dwell not with stern anger on his fault; 
The grace of God alone holds thee, holds all; 
Were that withdrawn, thou too wouldst swerve and 
halt. 

— J. Edmeston. 

If Few have the right to punish, all to pardon. 

— Landor. 

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f He is great who confers most benefits. — 

— Emerson. 

1 Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands. 

— Addison. 

In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, 
But all mankind's concern is charity. 

— Pope. 

f Behold I do not give lectures on a little charity; 
When I give, I give myself. — Walt Whitman. 

f Give pleasure. Lose no chance of giving pleasure. 

— Henry Drummond. 

If Do not act as if thou wast going to live ten thousand 
years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, 
while it is in thy power, do good. 

— Marcus Aurelius. 

1 A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he does 
in this world to his fellow-man. When he dies people 
will say, "What property has he left behind him?" 
But the angels will ask, "What good deeds has he 
sent before him?" — Mahomet. 

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1f If you have knowledge, let others light their candles 
by it. — Thomas Fuller. 

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If To pity distress is but human ; to relieve it is Godlike. 

— H. Mann. 

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f The place of Charity, like that of God, is everywhere. 

— QUARLES. 

The very flowers that bend and meet 
In sweetening others grow more sweet. 

— O. W. Holmes. 

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1 There is no man that imparteth his joy to his friend 
but he joyeth the more. — Bacon. 

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Search thine own heart, what paineth thee 

In others, in thyself may be; 

All dust is frail, all flesh is weak, 

Be thou the true man thou dost seek. 

— Whittier. 

If The desire of power in excess caused the angels to 
fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to 
fall; but in charity there is no excess, neither can angel 
or man come in danger of it. — Bacon. 

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f God has given us tongues that we may say something 
pleasant to our fellow-man. — Heine. 

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It is a joy to think the best we can 
Of humankind. 

— Wordsworth. 

t With malice toward none, with charity for all. 

— Abraham Lincoln. 

f The air of joy is very cheap; if you can help the poor 
on with a garment of praise, it will be better for them 
than blankets. — Henry Drummond. 

f Two-thirds of all that makes it "beautiful to be 
alive" consists in cup-ofTerings of water. 

— W. C. Gannett. 

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Praise loudly: blame softly. 

— Anon. 

T To make yourself humble with the unfortunate, to 
weep with the poor, to venerate what is good. . . to 
live on very little, to give away nearly all . . . that is 
the religion I shall proclaim in some little corner of 
my own. — George Sand. 

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1 THOUGH I speak with the tongues of men and of 
angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding 
brass or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the 
gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and 
all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that 
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I 
am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to 
feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, 
and have not love, it profiteth me nothing. Love 
surTereth long and is kind; love envieth not; love 
vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up; doth not be- 
have itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not 
easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in 
iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all 
things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth 
all things. Love never faileth: but whether there 
be prophecies, they shall fail ; whether there be tongues, 
they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall 
vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy 
in part; but when that which is perfect is come, 
then that which is in part shall be done away. When 
I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a 
child, I thought as a child; but when I became a 
man I put away childish things. For now we see 
through a glass darkly; but then face to face: now I 
know in part; but then shall I know even as also I 
am known. And now abideth faith, hope, and 
love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. 
— I Corinthians 13: 1-13. 

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